Substance Designer allows you to create substances, a new breed of smart textures. Substances are hybrid assets that can be made from different types of resources, including your existing bitmaps. But as opposed to bitmaps, substances can be fully dynamic, including for texture resolution. They can have multiple outputs to generate complete texture sets at once and they can also have inputs to be used as filters. Infinite possibilities stored in only a few kilobytes. More about substances.

Non-linear & Iterative WorkflowCreating substances in the node-based interface of Substance Designer is a completely non-linear process: you are free to make any change you want at any time, and all your changes will automatically be applied to all the outputs of your substance (diffuse, specular, normal, etc), so you can create and edit complete texture sets in a much faster way than with traditional tools.

Creative power and flexibilitySubstance Designer features a large set of resources for every 3D artist to achieve great results whatever their skills. Any user will be able to use the built-in filters to quickly boost his existing bitmaps and do things like transforming a simple photo into a seamless tileable material and adding dynamic details to it. More advanced users can use Substance Designer to create their own library of advanced custom filters and materials that they can re-use in their next creations. With Substance Designer, you have the power to build the texturing pipeline that really fits the creative needs of your projects.

Integrated pipelineNo other texturing solution integrates into your current pipeline as Substance Designer does. Your textures created in Photoshop or taken from your libraries of bitmaps can be used as resources for new substances. Even better, whether you create a dynamic material or a filter, you can import your substance into any compatible solution such as Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya 2012, and edit its parameters to generate new variations in real-time directly in your favorite DCC tool or game engine. You can also download our free Substance Player to render your substances into classic bitmaps.